Spotted on the bus, #1
(Yes, this will be an ongoing feature. Send nominations to me via email, will you…?)
I take public transportation everywhere. And I’ve seen a lot of interesting characters (you tend to do that if you’ve ever ridden the NYC subway system) along the way, of course. I often wonder about the lives and/or the backstory of the characters I see – don’t you?
Which leads me to this: I spotted a guy on a downtown-bound bus two or so weeks ago around 8:45 am. He was wearing a mostly-unremarkable black baseball cap with two lines on it:
- An email address (which I couldn’t make out, although it was a Yahoo address)
- Let’s do lunch.
No, I wasn’t close enough to see what he looked like (a pretty average guy, if I recall correctly.)
No, I didn’t get the email address.
No, I wasn’t looking to get the email address to invite him to lunch.
But I do have one question for him: How’s that been working for you so far?
And I have one question for all of you: is it a novel approach – or a little creepy (or something in between)? You decide…
I have to say, this would be a MUCH MUCH MUCH better post had you got the email address. :)
Also, a picture… maybe next time?
The bus was crowded, and he was all the way near the back, while I was jammed near the front.
I couldn’t have gotten closer, no way, no how. And I thought that either a) yelling out to him, or b) whipping out my cell phone to take his picture would have been way too stalker-ish.
Sorry…
I understand, I was just wishing so hard that someone knew it!! Now I’m gonna be on the lookout for that guy!
Remember that clothing company that items with a number on them? And then you registered the number and people could contact you thru your shirt or whatever? I don’t think it got very far, but this sort of reminds me of that.